SPARKS, Nev. — Workers at a Nevada research lab were checking
on a primate room when they came across a ghastly sight: Thirty dead monkeys
were essentially cooked alive after someone left the heater on. Two others were
near death and had to be euthanized.

At a lab run by the same company, a monkey died last year after it was sent
through a washer while still in its cage. The temperatures were so scalding the
monkey never had a chance.

The two cases have led to calls for greater oversight and enforcement of the
animal research industry after an alarmingly high number of deaths in recent
years.